All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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But to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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